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Worst gifts/gift someone has ever given you?

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  • #62
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    My mother got me a purple tuxedo shirt of Christmas 1985.

    I asked her 'how many puerto rican proms do you expect me to go to ?'.


  • #63
    goosey gander
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭goosey gander


    i think i must get the most horrible presents ever, my best friend in secondary school gave me a china clown as a birthday pressies...wouldnt be too bad if i wasnt terrified of them!!! Worse one ever was when my brother took our neighbours horse into our garden(i adore horses by the way!!!) and told me our mum and dad had had bought it for me for my birthday!!!! i was delighted until the neighbour came looking for his horse!!!:(


  • #64
    homerun_homer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,053 ✭✭✭homerun_homer


    A cello shaped pencil sharpener from my aunt for my 20th or 21st birthday. given to me months later when she saw me for first time since then. She wouldn't be someone I'd expect a gift from so when she jumped up saying "Oh I forgot to give you your birthday present!!" I sorta expected something cool.


  • #65
    deebee08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 75 ✭✭deebee08


    Jason Donovan annual for xmas pressie when I was about 15, think I stopped fancying him when I was about 10!!!! :confused:


  • #66
    Mackman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,810 ✭✭✭Mackman


    At work one x-mas, we did secret santa, and i got a box with 50 card games you can play on your own..........I have friends I SWEAR!!!!:(


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  • #67
    Earth Dweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Earth Dweller


    I'm actually guilty of giving cr*p presents, when i was 8 I went down to the corner shop and got my dad a blue bic biro and a copybook for his birthday and wrapped it up in a sheet of A4 refill pad paper. My mother went mad- I havent lived it down to this day. :D


  • #68
    DigiGal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭DigiGal


    My "friend" got me a Golden discs voucher for 25 quid.......

    AFTER Golden Discs had closed down

    Thanks Niamh...


  • #69
    acb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 120 ✭✭acb


    That sounds like the present I received last month for my birthday but I also got tip-ex, this plastic panio that spits out memo sheets and some paper clips.pathetic.

    You should be ashamed of such crap presents!!!


  • #70
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    Organised pilgrimage to Medjugorje as a wedding present.

    I'm an ex-protestant atheist with a strong hatred of any sort of organised religion. The comment to hubby was 'maybe she'll find back to the right way'.

    Appreciate the sentiment, but still think it's spiteful.


  • #71
    cathysworld
    Closed Accounts Posts: 378 ✭✭cathysworld


    A bottle of shampoo and conditioner from my best friend when I was 12--jesus thanks a million!!
    Also a bicycle lock for Xmas for my parents when I was 10, I didnt even know what it was!!


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  • #72
    Euro_Kraut
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    galah wrote: »
    Organised pilgrimage to Medjugorje as a wedding present.

    I'm an ex-protestant atheist with a strong hatred of any sort of organised religion. The comment to hubby was 'maybe she'll find back to the right way'.

    Appreciate the sentiment, but still think it's spiteful.


    Nasty.

    Did you go?


  • #73
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    A concrete dog, all glossy about two foot high.


  • #74
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    @ Euro-Kraut: not yet. But it looks like we're going - send the giver a postcard in front of one shrine or another, excuse ourselves from any holy business, and bugger off to the beach.


  • #75
    Earth Dweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭Earth Dweller


    acb wrote: »
    That sounds like the present I received last month for my birthday but I also got tip-ex, this plastic panio that spits out memo sheets and some paper clips.pathetic.

    You should be ashamed of such crap presents!!!

    That piano thing sounds great, yesssssss Dads bday present sorted!


  • #76
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,535 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


    A hairdryer from my parents when I was 9. The hairdryer that everyone in the family used was on the blink at the time and when I brought my hairdryer to my room thinking it was great to have my own one, I was asked why I hadn't put my hairdryer where the hairdryer was normally kept. :(


  • #77
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    When I was six I gave my ma a tin opener for Christmas. The old one was broke and my young mind reasoned that because mammy was the one that used the tin opener she'd love a new one.

    She did the part and pretended to be happy with it.


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